troubled - Story 155761 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the car window, mirroring the disquiet churning inside Elias. He hadn't been back to his childhood home in years. The drive felt long, each mile a tightening of the knot in his stomach. He remembered the oak he’d planted with his grandfather, a sapling then, now a towering sentinel. Approaching the old house, he slowed the car. Where the oak should have been, there was only a raw, jagged stump. He killed the engine, the silence amplifying the thudding in his chest.

His hand shook as he reached for the door handle. He got out of the car. The rain soaked through his coat.

He walked over to the stump. He touched the rough, splintered wood. The absence was a vast, hollow space in the familiar landscape.

Emotion: troubled

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.20 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.81

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion troubled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 troubled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the troubled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the troubled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.343
`S`	0.317
`ness`	0.302
`😔`	0.294
`😢`	0.272

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.553
`la`	-0.511
`l`	-0.307
`/`	-0.260
`(!)`	-0.236